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It Bleeds Without Stopping (The Heart)
I am the person whose job it is to hold the dogs as they die. You take one arm under the mid-abdomen and the other wrapped around the neck, wrist turned out so that if the animal is to jerk their head to bite they will only reach you, not…
Never Fired a Shot
Tyrell and I weren't really friends. I mean, our dads were friends and we went to the same school, so we were always around each other. Benny was a real friend, though. He forged a doctor's note to get me out of gym until my jock itch cleared up. Mrs.…
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by Jess Chua
Gullfoss
Raymond and Julia arrive from Los Angeles to Reykjavik on a Monday. By Friday, because they've perfected the art of traveling on a budget, they've figured out how to save money in an expensive country. “If we buy the sandwiches at the petrol stations and fill our bottles with water…
Sunny Sixteen
For nearly a year now I had been living with five other people in a house in Redondo Beach. I slept on the couch. In the mornings I would pull back the Venetian blinds to watch the fog tiptoe from the ocean, then up the gentle sand dune overlooking the…
Joy
We all sit in awe when the woman comes back with the drinks and lights up the one I've ordered. It's kind of dim in the restaurant and Shauna's mother—her name's Collette—has been shining a keychain flashlight all over the menu for the last several minutes trying to decide on…
Reflections
Illustrations by Maria Sweeney for Lois I woke to spring this morning. Plum trees batted against the open window, and a hard, purple knob landed on my pillow. I stretched toward the sun, the first bright bulb of my calla lily watching from the sill. It was a lazy Sunday,…
Sylvia
Illustration by Kimberly Edgar I never saw her smile—not once—not in all the months I would come to know her. Her eyes held something. I didn't know what. It wasn't vacancy. It wasn't sadness. Maybe it was rage—maybe hidden, seething rage. Maybe that's too strong. She was the most homeless-looking…
Janine Kovac
Janine Kovac (she/her) writes about power dynamics and women's bodies. Her work has appeared in Under the Sun, Bellingham Review, Jet Fuel Review, Pangyrus, New Ohio Review, Writer's Digest, Publishers Weekly, Santa Fe Writers Project and elsewhere. A former professional ballet dancer, Janine trained at San Francisco Ballet and in…
Next Generation Short Story Awards
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Booklash: Literary Freedom, Online Outrage, and Language of Harm
PEN America report on social media outrage and literary freedom
How to Find the Right Agent for Your Book
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Tom Howard/John H. Reid Fiction & Essay Contest 2023
Congratulations to the winners of the 2023 Tom Howard/John H. Reid Fiction & Essay Contest!
Allison Troy
Sandi Sonnenfeld
Sandi Sonnenfeld is the author of the memoir, This Is How I Speak (Seattle: Impassio Press), an intimate and entertaining portrait of a dancer turned writer trying to negotiate creativity, the narrative craft, love, dogmatic deconstructionists, a dangerous sexual assault, a bad therapist and finding her own voice during her…
Munroe Shearer
Munroe is a writer and theatre artist born and raised in Northern Vermont, currently based in Providence, Rhode Island. Munroe is a 2023 graduate of Emerson College, where he received the Rod Parker Playwriting Fellowship and the Betsey Carpenter Award for Playwriting. His work often centers his rural New England…
D.T. Lumpkin
D.T. Lumpkin divides his time between his home in Nashville and wherever he can crash in Athens, Georgia, while he is pursuing a PhD in English there. His prose has appeared in The Sun, The Oxford American, Five Points, and Story Magazine, amongst other places. His honors include an AWP…
Jen Knox
Jen Knox is an educator at Ohio State University and the founder of Unleash Creatives/Unleash Lit. Her debut novel, We Arrive Uninvited (March 2023), was the Prose Award winner from Steel Toe Books. She is also the author of After the Gazebo (Rain Mountain Press) and The Glass City, a…
Jules Dubel
Jennifer Tubbs
Jennifer Tubbs is a Southwestern writer whose work focuses on womanhood through the lens of magical realism. She has taught English internationally in Hyderabad, India and Santiago, Chile. Her prose can be found in CutBank, Conceptions Southwest, and elsewhere. She is currently at work on a genre-bending book that grapples…
Mark Cecil Stevens
Mark Cecil Stevens is an author and paramedic living in Alaska. He serves the people of the Yukon and Kuskokwim River deltas, near the shores of the Bering Sea. He has had works published in The Vocabula Review, Cantaraville, Fawlt and Shuddhashar. He is currently studying for his Master of…
Leslie Schwartz
Leslie Schwartz has written two award-winning novels, Jumping the Green and Angels Crest, and a memoir, The Lost Chapters; Finding Recovery and Renewal One Book at a Time. She won the James Jones Award for best first novel for Jumping the Green and was named Kalliope Magazine's Woman Writer of…
Blake Z. Rong
Blake Z. Rong is a writer in Brooklyn with an MFA from the Vermont College of Fine Arts. His debut collection of poetry, I Am Not Young And I Will Die With This Car In My Garage, was published in 2021. His work has appeared in Tupelo Quarterly, Brazenhead, New…
G.H. Plaag
G.H. Plaag is a poet, writer, and musician from Louisiana. Their work has been published by The Academy of American Poets, The Winter Anthology, and The Hyacinth Review, among others. They have also won recognition and support from The Unterberg Poetry Center, Writer's Digest, The Bedford Writing Competition, and Sundress…
Billie Kelpin
Billie Kelpin is a writer and former teacher of the deaf and sign language interpreter. Her literary works encompass fiction and creative nonfiction, with publication in Lost Coast Review and the anthologies The Truth That Can't Be Told, Books I and II. Her portfolio includes essays, short stories, her debut…
Beth Ann Fennelly Wins the 22nd Annual Wergle Flomp Humor Poetry Contest
Beth Ann Fennelly of Oxford, Mississippi won the 22nd annual Wergle Flomp Humor Poetry Contest sponsored by Winning Writers and co-sponsored by Duotrope. Her entry, “Epistle to My Lord Concerning My Sons' Future Spouses”, bested those of 6,303 other poets to receive the $2,000 prize. The Second Prize of $500…
Beth Ann Fennelly Wins the 22nd Annual Wergle Flomp Humor Poetry Contest
The results of our 22nd annual humor poetry contest
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Happy Harper: Grandpa Comes Home
The 2022 Children’s Picture Book Winner in the North Street Book Prize Competition
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By Terri Kirby Erickson
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Bean Sí
By Michael McKeown Bondhus
the time i brought a pie to a gun fight
this pie is the best pie i've ever made. i won't throw it like a frisbee because my brother said i can't throw to save my life. i hug the pie to my granny christmas sweater, the one with the sequinned ornaments that scratch wiggly lines in my arms. it…
Ode to a Stamp
Oh sticky little stampy friend How I long to lick your end And place you on an envelope To send you via post with hope That one day you will find the one To whom your address bids you run But maybe not so freaky fast Because you pay a…
Helicopter Tiddies
On a slow day at work, my coworkers talk about breasts— mammograms, and speculums. Our worst IUD experiences, loud and brassy. Who fainted. Who drove themselves home. Whose body rejected it like a sharpened candy cane from their cervix. Whose tits are dense like hot fudge brownies left in the…
We Named Her Karma
In her dotage, our cat grows profound. She sits close to our faces, stares into us with her jaundiced eyes, stretches out one paw in our direction. “These are my people. Family is all that matters. As long as we are together, that is enough.” She starts the night in…
Shakespeare Writes Clickbait
The theaters were closed by plague. Again. Will needed to make some money, fast. He had a wife and two daughters to feed, A bolt-hole in the country to fund, And that second-best bed had seen better days. Googling, he spotted a sponsored link: Online copywriters wanted. Must be able…
Nintendhoe
Going down my pipe like he's mario And I'm gonna super smash his bro. He's got an ass like peach but a dick like toad— Going off course on rainbow road. He's a shy guy so he leaves his mask on. Cant have a Daisy, so he turns the masc…
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Unnatural Theology
Being a First-Hand Account of the Psychological Effects of Instrumental Conditioning Argument: A rat, having been used as a test subject in a series of instrumental conditioning experiments, one day finds that the pellets cease to be dispensed through the pellet dispenser (unbeknownst to him, a catastrophe has all but…
The Unexpected Poetry of NextDoor Digest
Today's Top Posts: My dogs started to growl, so I sat up and looked outside. We fell in love with our new vision. I yelled out the window, “We see what you're doing!” Today's Top Posts: Sparkly “50” wine glass and body sash are ready to adorn your special someone…
The Hallmark Boyfriends
Holiday season approaches, but we're not filled with cheer, Instead, the same sensation we encounter every year. Lights twinkle in our cities, the streets are covered in snow, But a sense of dread hangs over us, our hearts are not aglow. For we know that in December, when Santa comes…
A Sex Therapist’s 50 Ways to Please Your Lover (Paul Simon)
Illustration by Annie Mydla using Shutterstock AI If you're having problems in the bed, not to worry The answer is easy if you take it from me A licensed expert in sexual psychology There must be fifty ways to please your lover She said, I know the “big O” may…
On Being the Glamorous Blonde Villain from All Those Nineties Kids’ Movies
Illustration by Annie Mydla using Shutterstock AI “Aren't I a human being? Don't I yearn, and ache, and shop? Don't I deserve love? And jewelry?” —Debbie Jellinsky, Addams Family Values “Being young and beautiful isn't a crime, you know.” —Meredith Blake, The Parent Trap I'm here to marry your father…
Epistle to My Lord Concerning My Sons’ Future Spouses
Illustration by Whitney Sasaki, @whitneykittyart Because I will not be around forever, Lord, I find myself considering those who will feed my sons after I'm gone, Lord, for my sons are joyous eaters, joyous and prodigious, but care not for the ways of the kitchen, despite my attempts at instruction.…
Ashlen Renner
Ashlen Renner is a journalist from North Carolina and a fellow at the Cheuse International Writers Center. When she is not recovering from rollerblading-related accidents, Ashlen is working on a book of obscure medieval saints and their weird stories. Ashlen is finishing her MFA at George Mason University studying creative…
Riley McNutt
Riley McNutt (he/him) is a professional stage actor out of Minneapolis, MN. Writing plays and sketches has always called to him, but poetry only recently entered his life. It was the potential for dark comedy in a cheerily-metered verse that sparked his interest. This poem is the first submission to…
